Jennifer Morrison (Kate Keller) will make her Broadway debut in The Miracle Worker. She can currently be seen as "Dr. Allison Cameron" on Fox's critically acclaimed drama "House MD," which has received nominations for the 2009 Screen Actors Guild Award, Primetime Emmy Award® for Outstanding Drama Series in 2008, 2007 and 2006 and a 2008 Golden Globe Award®. She was recently nominated for a 2008 WIN Award for Outstanding Actress Drama Series for her performance on the hit show. This fall she can be seen in the upcoming Lion's Gate feature film Warrior directed by Gavin O'Conner starring opposite Nick Nolte and Joel Egerton. This summer she appeared in J.J. Abrams' film Star Trek as "Captain James Kirk's" mother "Winona." She was recently seen in 20th Century Fox's Mr. and Mrs. Smith opposite Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Dreamworks' Surviving Christmas starring Ben Affleck and Christina Applegate, the independent film Flourish in which she stars in and produced and in the Lifetime feature "The Murder of Princess Diana" based on the fictional novel by Noel Botham. Other film credits include Grind, Urban Legends: Final Cut and the Kevin Bacon thriller Stir of Echoes. On television she played a recurring role on "Dawson's Creek" and appeared in the series "Any Day Now" and "The Chronicle." Morrison studied with the celebrated Steppenwolf Theatre Company and earned a theater degree from Loyola University.
Elizabeth Franz (Aunt Ev) made her Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Since then she has appeared on Broadway in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs (Tony® and Drama Desk Award nominations), The Cherry Orchard, The Octette Bridge Club, The Cemetery Club, Getting Married, Uncle Vanya. Ms. Franz is best known for her powerful interpretation of "Linda Loman" in the 1999 production of Death of a Salesman (Tony Award®, Chicago's Jefferson Award, Boston's Eliot Norton Award, Los Angeles' Ovation Award, New York's Fany Award, Drama Desk Award nomination and Outer Critics Circle Nomination) opposite Brian Dennehy. Her performance was recorded for television and she was nominated for Screen Actors Guild and Emmy Awards®. She and Sam Waterston starred in an acclaimed New York production of Long Day's Journey Into Night before she returned to Broadway in the multiple Tony® nominated production of Morning's At Seven for which was nominated for Tony®, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Off Broadway: originated the title role in Christopher Durang's Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You (Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination), world premiere of Kelly Masterson's Against the Rising Sea at Queens Theater in The Park and The Piano Teacher at The Vineyard Theatre (2008 Lucille Lortel Award). Other performances include The Cripple of Inishman, The Comedy of Errors, Minutes from the Blue Route and Madwoman of Chaillot. Regional credits include Lion in Winter, The Glass Menagerie, A View from the Bridge, The Matchmaker, The Wizard of Oz, Great Expectations, Model Apartment, Woman in Mind. In 2003 she was awarded the Dramatist's Guild Sidney Kingsley and Madge Evans Lifetime Achievement in the Theater Award. Film: Christmas with the Kranks, The Substance of Fire, Sabrina, The Pallbearer, Stephen King's Thinner, Fish in a Bathtub, Secret of My Success, School Ties and Jacknife. Television movies "A Town's Revenge" (Emmy® nomination), "A Girl Thing," "The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket" "Dottie," "Love and Other Sorrows" and "House of Mirth." Numerous television series including "Law & Order: Cold Case," "Judging Amy," "Roseanne" and "The Gilmore Girls."
Abigail Breslin (Helen Keller)made her breakthrough film appearance as Mel Gibson's leading lady at the tender age of five in M. Night Shyamalan's 2002 film Signs. She is perhaps best known for her critically-acclaimed title role performance in the runaway hit comedy Little Miss Sunshine. Abigail received Academy Award, SAG and BAFTA best supporting actress nominations and was honored with a best actress award from the Tokyo International Film Festival as well as being named ShoWest's "Female Star of Tomorrow" in 2008. Other film credits include Raising Helen, No Reservations, Definitely Maybe, Nim's Island and Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. This summer, she starred opposite Cameron Diaz in the Warner Brother's film My Sister's Keeper and can currently be seen starring in Columbia's hit horror comedy Zombieland opposite Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, and Emma Stone. Abigail can next be seen opposite Johnny Depp in Rango, Gore Verbinski's animated adventure film for Paramount Pictures.
Alison Pill (Annie Sullivan) most recently starred on Broadway in Mauritius and in the Off-Broadway hits reasons to be pretty and Blackbird, for which she received Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League nominations. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her Broadway debut in The Lieutenant of Inishmore and for a Lucille Lortel Award for On the Mountain. She won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble in the U.S. premiere of The Distance from Here and starred in an Off-Broadway run of None of the Above. Film work includes Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Milk, Dan in Real Life, Dear Wendy, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and Pieces of April. Television includes "In Treatment" (HBO), "The Book of Daniel" (NBC), "Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows," and the upcoming miniseries "The Pillars of the Earth."
Kate Whoriskey (Director) was recently represented Off-Broadway with Manhattan Theatre Club and Goodman Theatre's acclaimed co-production of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize winning play Ruined for which she earned Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel and Jeff Award (excellence in Chicago Theatre) nominations. New York credits include The Piano Teacher by Julia Cho at the Vineyard Theatre, Last Tree in Antartica by Julia Cho at Ensemble Studio Theatre, the world premiere of Fabulation by Lynn Nottage at Playwrights Horizons and Massacre by Jose Rivera at the Labyrinth Theatre Company of which she is a member. She also directed The Tempest at Shakespeare Theatre, the world premiere of Vigils, The Rose Tattoo and Heartbreak House at the Goodman Theatre, the world premiere of Intimate Apparel, The Piano Teacher, Life is a Dream, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Antigone, and Clean House at South Coast Repertory, Master Builder at The American Repertory Theatre, and Blue/Orange, Lady from the Sea and The Chairs at the Intiman Theatre. She has worked with writers Nilo Cruz, Sarah Ruhl, Michael Oondaatje, ReGina Taylor and Said Sayrefezadieh. Other theatres where she has directed include Theatre for a New Audience, Baltimore Center Stage, Perseverance Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Sundance Theatre Lab, The Fisher Center, The Eugene O'Neill Center and GeVa Theatre. A graduate of NYU and the ART Institute at Harvard, she is currently a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and an associate artist at South Coast Rep. She was recently named the Artistic Director of the Intiman Theatre.
William Gibson (Playwright) was most recently represented on Broadway in 2003 with the production of Golda's Balcony. Born in 1914 in New York City, he has written poetry, fiction and scripts for stage, television and films. His plays include The Miracle Worker (Tony Award®, Best Play 1960), which was originally produced for television's Playhouse 90; Two for the Seesaw; A Cry of Players; Golda; The Butterfingers Angel; Monday After the Miracle; Goodly Creatures; and Handy Dandy. He is the author of a novel, The Cobweb, as well as the musical version of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy. His several books include The Seesaw Log, A Mass for the Dead - a study of his family - and a volume of poetry entitled Winter Crook. Mr. Gibson's book, A Season in Heaven, takes a look at metaphysics and the creative process. His most recent book is Shakespeare's Game, a critical study. He was married to the psychoanalyst Margaret Brenman-Gibson, whose biography, Clifford Odets, American Playwright, was release in 1982.
THE MIRACLE WORKER tickets are $117.00 (including $2.00 facility charge) and are available by calling Telecharge at 212-239-6200, visiting www.telecharge.com or in person at Circle in the Square Theatre box office at 235 West 50 Street. Group sales tickets may be purchased by calling 212-239-6262 / 800-432-7780.
THE MIRACLE WORKER will play the following schedule:
Previews from Friday, February 12 - Tuesday, March 2:
Monday - Saturday evenings at 8p, Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2p. No performances Sunday. Opening night curtain on Wednesday, March 3 is 6:30p.
Beginning Thursday, March 4, 2010: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 7p,Friday and Saturday at 8p, Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2p. Sunday matinees at 3p. Dark Monday.
Visit www.miracleworkeronbroadway.com for more information.
